"keep one's guard up" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: keeps one's guard up [present, singular, third-person], keeping one's guard up [participle, present], kept one's guard up [participle, past], kept one's guard up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|keep<,,kept> one's guard up}} keep one's guard up (third-person singular simple present keeps one's guard up, present participle keeping one's guard up, simple past and past participle kept one's guard up)
  1. To be careful and alert to the possibility of danger. Synonyms: have one's guard up, be on one's guard Translations (Translations): pysyä valppaana (Finnish), pitää varansa (Finnish), rester sur ses gardes (French), trzymać gardę [imperfective] (Polish)
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